Silent Film Fun

Carmel Myers cuff from Moving Pictures e-book by Donna Kallner

Here's a little treat for the students in my Moving Pictures classes last week at Bead & Button, and fans of my Moving Pictures image transfer jewelry e-book: Last week the New York Times reported on a treasure trove of American silent films found in New Zealand. There's more information about the repatriation of the New Zealand collection at the National Film Preservation Foundation web site, where you can also watch some short clips from the era including a trailer for Australian release of The Sin Woman, a couple of short documentaries, a newsreel, and an animated cartoon.

Image Transfer Jewelry: The E-books

For a while now, I've been wanting to find more ways to present some of the material I teach. I love teaching, and my students have a great time learning techniques and exploring ideas. But even my most devoted students (bless your hearts) can never take every class I offer. So now I'm offering some of my classes as e-books. The first three are online at Scribd.com.

In Blooming Image Transfers, you'll learn to create floral jewelry using iron-on image transfers on fabric. The e-book includes 4 full pages of images for you to print on inkjet heat transfer paper, and step-by-step instructions for making pins, necklaces and cuff-style bracelets.

Gifts In A Snap shows you how to make jewelry gifts from T-shirt transfers. This book contains 18 image elements sized for you to print on one sheet of 8-1/2" x 11" inkjet heat transfer paper, plus step-by-step instructions on how to turn a transfer into the gift of wearable art.

Moving Pictures also uses image transfers to create wearable art that celebrates the ladies of silent film. The e-book includes 10 printable image elements sized for you to print on two 8-1/2" x 11" sheets of inkjet heat transfer paper, plus complete step-by-step instructions for making a cuff-style bracelet. A bonus project shows how to turn your samples into brooches.

The e-books are $9.95 each. Free preview pages let you know exactly what materials are needed to complete the projects before you buy the e-book. You can sign into Scribd with just your Facebook account, or join Scribd (it's free), and pay with a credit card. Once you purchase a title, you can view it online or download the document as a PDF. I've set things up so there's a printer-friendly summary page, so you can print just that to keep with your WIP (along with the images you'll print on inkjet heat transfer paper).

The best part of a class is always seeing how different students interpret the material. I hope you'll send in pictures of pieces you make from these projects and allow me to post them here. You can email JPG images to me at donnastitches[at]gmail[dot]com.

Stay tuned as I add more e-books in the months ahead. And let me know if there's a title you want moved to the top of my to-do list!

Inkjet Fabric & Saving Trees

My first free e-book is now available at Scribd. I'm working on other e-books and hope to have one or two titles available soon.

I'm also thinking of going digital with content from Altered Images and New Age Looping. What do you think?

Inkjet Fabric: an e-book by Donna Kallner